Seasons & episodes
1 season · 30 episodes
Episode 01
The Personal Touch
After selling a ""race"" horse to get some working capital, Alec poses as an eccentric millionaire to try to relieve a shipping tycoon of a million dollars.
Episode 02
The Day They Gave the Diamonds Away
Marcel poses as a scientist who's invented a diamond making machine, which they try to sell to the world's biggest diamond merchant. As a side effect they buy the stock of his company when it drops in price, fully expecting it to return to full value once he destroys the machine.
Episode 03
The Stefanini Dowry
In New York, Tony tries to take back a diamond necklace that once ""belonged"" to the family, but were lost by an ancestor 106 years ago. The necklace is in the hotel room of a visiting dictator, who is planning to sell his country's crown jewels for his personal profit.
Episode 04
Viva Diaz!
Alec poses as an inveterate gambler and Marcel as a Swiss banker with a penchant for baccarat in a scheme to fleece a Latin American leader who absconded with his nation's treasury.
Episode 05
House of Cards
Tony is brought in, when Uncle Bertie loses a small fortune at Courtleigh House, one of London's premiere gaming houses. Tony is supposed to crack the safe, but is setup for theft and caught red-handed. Briscoe gives the family 24 hours to prove his innocence.
Episode 06
Death of a Fleming
Marcel meets a girl who was sold into a harem. The family gets together a scheme to get a million dollars out of the sheik who is the buyer. As a part of the plan Tony must fake his death, only he sneezes.
Episode 07
The Project Man
Tony and Timmy stumble onto some information about a proposed rocket site. They take advantage of this information to lighten the fortunes of the men who bought all the land the site may be built on.
Episode 08
Two of a Kind
Marcel runs into another member of the old French resistance and she wants his help in supplying guidance for her son whom she thinks may be involved in the theft of a stamp. After Marcel meets him, he thinks he may be his son, but this boy needs an education on being a ""Rouge.""
Episode 09
Take Me to Paris
No synopsis available at this time.
Episode 10
Fringe Benefits
Alec is forced to participate in a diamond smuggling operation by Briscoe who has a case built against the family. While in Rio, he and Timmy try to make a little money on the side by exploiting the rich exiles.
Episode 11
Plavonia, Hail and Farewell
Tony poses as an international financier, and Margaret as the last member of the royal family of Plavonia. The scheme is to get a wealthy Plavonian man to invest some of his reclusive millions, so they can help other Plavonian refugees. The scheme goes amiss when Tony is kidnapped.
Episode 12
The Boston Money Party
Tony and the family help out a friend of his whose business has just been raided. They position this corporate raider for a fall, by trying to sell him a textile company that has developed a new process for making fabric or so he thinks.
Episode 13
The Computer Goes West
Marcel and Timmy are just given the task of smuggling a computer back to the west, when their friend is murdered. They are accused and arrested, but a government official offers them a deal, which Marcel plans to use in completing their original task.
Episode 14
Hugger-Mugger, by the Sea
Tony sets up a shipping magnate into thinking he is working for his rival and that they are on the trail of some treasure. The treasure is contained within a ship that is part of a fleet of ""worthless"" U.S. Navy ships.
Episode 15
The Real Russian Caviar
No synopsis available at this time.
Episode 16
Money Is for Burning
Tony and the family are plotting to sell a castle with a few well-placed trinkets in it. The scheme gets compounded when a train has been robbed of three million pounds and the thieves are hiding it in the castle while they are placing their trinkets. Tony gets mixed up with a charming woman while trying to get away from the thieves and the police.
Episode 17
Gambit by the Golden Gate
Marcel brings a fake Rembrandt to San Francisco where they will try switching it with the original which is owned by ""The Concrete King."" Their plan is changed when the original is donated to a museum, but later stolen, so they use the fake to bait the thief.
Episode 18
Bless You, G. Carter Huntington
A wealthy man buys the land that also contains a cemetery with the remains of Alexis St. Clair. It's a family affair as Marcel, Alec and Timmy meet Tony in New York City to put one over on him. They find help with their plan from Huntington's unhappily married wife.
Episode 19
The Golden Ocean
Tony comes to the aid of an old friend who's being forced to pay back a loan totaling $250,000 in five days. With help from the family he plans to get the money from the loaner, but this man may be too sharp for them.
Episode 20
The Diamond-Studded Pie
Tony poses as a ""Great White Hunter,"" where the plan is to take an American businessman on the hunt of his life. Only wild animals aren't the intended game, it's some well-placed diamonds.
Episode 21
Bow to a Master
""The Cat"" takes a pearl necklace that Tony has just taken, so he sets out to skin ""The Cat."" The plot is to help him steal a large diamond, by switching in a fake when it's delivered.
Episode 22
Run For the Money
Tony and Timmy enter East Berlin to retrieve a million in gold coins that will be used to help finance a refugee escape route from the East to the West. While there, Tony must also try to rescue the daughter of an old friend before she is shot for treason.
Episode 23
The Laughing Lady of Luxor
Marcel and Timmy meet an old friend who tells them he will make them rich, but he winds up dead before he can tell them which object in his shipment is worth ""millions."" So they setup shop, with their ploy to see who is the most interested in this unknown object.
Episode 24
The Bartered MacBride
Tony poses as the lost cousin of a family that is waiting to collect the inheritance they are expecting after their uncle's ""unexpected"" death. Tony and the family are going to sell them the part of the inheritance he kept, but only after they convince them there is oil on it.
Episode 25
The Pigeons of Paris
Timmy's old school friend, who is a painter and an undercover agent, is murdered. Marcel and Timmy move into his Paris studio to try to uncover what he was working on that caused him to be killed.
Episode 26
Our Men in Marawat
Marcel and Timmy are sent by Briscoe to return an original art object back to its rightful place and help avoid the political situation that may result if the fake is discovered.
Episode 27
Wherefore Art Thou, Harold?
Margaret enlists the family to help a friend who is being evicted by a publisher who wants to get his hands on copies of first editions that belong with the house she owns. Tony & Marcel set out to sell him a Timmy first edition, a forgery he did in Shakespeare's handwriting years ago.
Episode 28
Grave Doubts
Tony gets involved with a girl whose father was just murdered or was he really killed twenty years ago. The original body's coffin is to be exhumed by two ""cousins"" planning to take it back to Germany (what secrets does it hold?) but Tony puts his and Marcel's talents to use.
Episode 29
Mr. White's Christmas
Marcel and another American cousin, work on a scheme to make Horatio T. White, a Scrooge-like millionaire, become the ""world's greatest philanthropist.""
Episode 30
A Daring Step Backward
Marcel and the family help a fashion designer whose latest creations were pirated and her studio ruined. Their con creates ""new"" fashions with Margaret's old dresses from 1932 as they begin to setup the fashion magazine editor who is responsible.
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